VITAMINS AND MINERALS

1. The Rooms Look Bad
2. The Man, So Stuck
3. He Wants to Move
4. He Takes a Nap
5. He Falls Away
6. He Sleeps Too Much
7. He Needs to Breathe
8. He Finds the Book
9. Just for Example
10. And So He Does
11. Just Follow Me
12. He Grabs Some Cake
13. It Comes to This
14. The Soul Seems Lost
15. Kick Ass




14.

The soul seems lost. The soul seems lost.

THE SOUL:

What can I, should I do?
Everything that I suggest, I can’t get through to you.

The soul seems lost. The soul seems lost.

THE SOUL:

I might just have to take this route
That some would say’s the easy out.
But to me, it never seems to fail
If you cannot reason with the head, then why not try the tail?
I know it sounds a little crass.
But now I think it’s time for me to teach you how to kick your ass.

So the soul begins to use his body and if it were a puppet.

THE SOUL:

You’ve been sitting way too long on your little tuffett.
So rise and shine, it’s time to glow.
And kick your booty as you go.
Suck in that gut.
And kick your butt.
Now let me see you go.
Now let me see you go.
Just take the heel of either foot and kick it where it counts.
Your foot is like a mountain cat. Just wind him up and pounce!

And there he goes.
And there he goes.

THE SOUL:

Now that’s the way to do it, man, I am most impressed.
That’s the quickest and the furthest that anyone’s progressed.

THE MAN:

So what? Who cares? This too shall pass.
It’s no big deal to kick my ass.
All I did was kick my ass.
I took my foot and kicked my ass!

THE SOUL:

It’s perfect form the way you do it.
Now you know what you can do if you put your mind up to it.

03/19/2008

Author's Note: Vitamins and Minerals was written in June 2003. It was originally performed as a One-Man-Poetry-Show at One Arm Red Theatre in DUMBO, Brooklyn. You can read the poem in its entirety. Or broken up in 15 individual pieces.

Posted on 03/19/2008
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